BP2_2009101_Anti-Teaching

After reading the articles, I found that I really enjoyed the Anti-Teaching and the PLE article. They both are really about creating your own Personal Learning Environment. The anti-teaching article, the author, Michael Wesch mentioned ?My job becomes less about teaching and more about encouraging students to join me on the quest.? That is sort of how I feel in my classes. I am there to help guide them into learning about my class, my ?elective? class. Our school is Technology Based, so every student is issued a laptop computer. And as a resource, we the teachers tend to utilize the fact that our students have access to many areas that most students cannot view on their own at school. In my art classes, I use the internet to aide in teaching about art history, but the projects are not like my college classes (similar to what was described in the anti-teaching article) of sitting in a HUGE lecture hall listening to the instructor, who cant speak English well. Sine we have access to the Internet, the students are to come up several websites that will inform them about a certain artist or style of art. Once they feel they know or can find the information about the subject, the student now lectures to me about the subject. Is it really a lecture? I don?t think so; I will stop them and ask them a question. About the subject, maybe specific dates or ask the definition of a word, but they are allowed to use the computer and hopefully they have already seen or read the question. If they cannot answer within like 30 seconds, then I ask them to take their time, find the information and come back to tell me about it when they have found it. I feel it takes the teaching out of my hands and allows the student to do the learning then share their findings with me. Many of my other classes also have similar types of projects from architectural house styles, rise and run, kitchen cabinet sizes, in my architecture and engineering classes. Zodiac signs, photoshopcontest.com, advertisements and colors in graphic design classes and programming, robotics, electronics, competitions, hands on building and programming of robots to do specific tasks and interacting with other teams through emails and the FIRST website in my robotics class.